It's not odd. Fungi are not in the animal kingdom. However, it is odd that they eat plenty of animal products, which are not vegetables.

Please don't use glue traps.

Wow, I disliked that book. Maybe some modern treatment in a film will improve the story. The interminable gay sex ought to be interesting, at least.

Of the "more than 40 years of working in libraries," I wonder how many Mr. Gorman spent answering silly questions on the telephone. Now "who was Henry VIII's second wife?" can be fielded by McGoogle, freeing Mr. Gorman to draft more vitriolic treatises against the digital age.